There s also another option you might not have considered yet converting an existing window into a french glass door.
Turning windows into french doors.
The cost to install french doors starts at about 400 and with labor estimates running between 75 and 180 per door.
Build a wall support structure to create excellent support framing especially if the wall is load bearing.
Remove the single standard door and install a french door wall by using one of the french doors normally to enter and exit the room.
You can expect an average cost of 525 and up.
I double hinged the middle doors combining to sets of french doors into one.
If you want to be able to open the house up and let lots of air in a door wins every time.
Turning a window into a patio door may seem like an overwhelming project for a homeowner.
The patio door after it has been installed.
And one of the most cost effective remodeling jobs you can do is turn a window into a door.
The kits have different assortments of parts and the dlx kit has enough parts to do a standard 6ft patio door 2 each full surround 15 lite grids 3 panes across and 5 panes down or several windows.
A quick little video of me turning windows into french doors with a twist.
Install two or three additional doors that don t open or close to replace the wall itself.
Doors offer almost everything a window can offer and more.
The good news about turning a window into a door assuming it s wide enough is that the advanced carpentry required for altering a load bearing wall.
Because you are almost certainly going to be increasing the width of the opening and very likely raising and lengthening the support header over the window as well you are going to to be above the cost in the referenced comments probably in the 2000.
So you ve just built a new deck on the back of your house and those once lovely double windows in the living room would now make a better door sliding glass or french out to that awesome deck.
Here is a recent response on cost to install a sliding glass door which is quite a bit easier than a french door but same general size.
Converting a window to a door follow these guidelines for removing a window and creating a rough opening.